The School of Health Sciences at Salt Lake Community College is committed to providing quality education in nursing and allied health fields, ensuring each graduate is ready to enter the healthcare profession. Experienced and clinically prepared faculty, along with hands-on experience in a variety of clinical settings, allow students to become skilled in the science of healing and the art of compassion and ready to serve their community. The School of Health Sciences is housed on the Jordan Campus and offers the following programs: dental hygiene, medical assistant, respiratory therapy, surgical technology, mortuary science, occupational therapy assistant, physical therapist assistant, radiologic technology, nursing.
A man and woman review x-rays on an illuminated board. There are two papers on the right of the image that describe the x-rays. The first on the top says "Radiograph A radiograph is the end result of an exacting technical procedure. Each phase of this procedure must be carried out with care to obtain the greatest anatomic details of the structures for the purpose of demonstrating the absence of or the presences and extent of traumatic or pathologic changes". The bottom text reads "digital X-ray imaging The digital approach to imaging is based on transforming the conventional analog images into digital form, processing the digital dat in … ways, and displaying it in a manner that makes it appear very like a conventional image. Such data conversion and manipulation would not be possible if it were not for advanced computer technology".
Several x-rays are laid at on a illuminated board each with a brief description. Clockwise starting from the top left; the first x-ray is of a foot with 6 toes the incomplete text reads "... toes … to many piggies, that went to the market". The second image is of a head with a large nail driven through the head, the completed text read "This person had came into the hospital complaining of a headache. Gee, I wonder why? Being a carpenter by trade, he had shot himself with a nail gun. The nail enter in so fast, that he didn't notice. The last image Is to dark to make out any detail , the complete text reads "... babies were join at the head at birth … they were separated and doing fine".
